[Movie Review] ‘Detention’ respects its source material, even if it isn’t that scary
To make a movie based on a game, one usually needs a certain eye for crafting a coherent narrative. Games and movies use different narrative [Click to read more.]
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[Movie Review] ‘Knives Out’ meanders too much despite good performances
Whodunnits require a careful balance of subtle foreshadowing along with a strong motivation for the story to continue — since the whole point of it [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] ‘Frozen 2’ tries its best to have a raison d’etre
It’s hard being a sequel. Not only do you have to live up to the expectations of the original film, but you also have to [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] ‘Doctor Sleep’ shines but suffers from its love of ‘The Shining’
Doctor Sleep is long. It’s packed with lots of good ideas, but what plagues it the way old demons plague its main character, Danny Torrance (Ewan [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] ‘Countdown’ makes its scares count, but it has a wonky plot
Fate. Ever since the dawn of humanity, humans have been obsessed with knowing (and attempting to defy) one’s own fate. Of course, such stories are [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] Calm, confident, ‘Terminator: Dark Fate” delivers a creeping sense of inevitable doom
Terminator: Dark Fate does many things well (something that can’t quite be said for its predecessors in the 2000s), but what it does best is [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] Predictable but enjoyable, ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ gives audiences more of its ‘evil’ heroine
When a sequel starts by undoing the plot of the previous movie, you know that the story is going to be somewhat suspect. Maleficent: Mistress [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] ‘Gemini Man’ feels like a video game come to life
The use of high frame rates for theatrical presentations has always been a little contentious, since many feel that it detracts from the traditional cinematic [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] Unnerving, beautiful, horrifying, understandable: ‘Joker’ is a mix of dichotomies
For a film which has its title character being lauded as the patron saint of incels, Joker (Joaquin Phoenix) is surprisingly, not. Which is no [Click to read more.]
[Movie Review] ‘Ad Astra’ brings you on an audio tour de force of outer space
Space has always been the final frontier for humanity, holding great promises and grand secrets that will be bequeathed on whoever dares to reach for [Click to read more.]